Tomic's BMW fails to draw $200,000 reserve

Sophia Walter

Negotiations continue for the sale of tennis ace Bernard Tomic's infamous orange BMW after the highest bid of $146,000 failed to meet reserve at an auction in Brisbane today.

Pickles Auctions prestige vehicle account manager David Luckman said the sale of the high performance car was watched by more than 100 online bidders plus a packed auction room, but failed to meet the reserve that was “not as high as $200,000”.

“There was a lot of interest on the day and I think it's made more money than most people would have expected," he said.

“It was over $200,000 to purchase in 2010, he'd put extras on the car and it had less than 7000 kilometres on the clock.

“We just have to meet in the middle on the price and it has increased somewhat already.”

Tomic had been issued a special exemption to drive the car on his provisional driver's license, but only to and from training and other activities directly related to his tennis.

He is selling it after being repeatedly pulled over by police for driving the high-powered vehicle in breach of the special conditions of his licence.

Tomic is due to face a Gold Coast court on February 14 charged with failing to stop his car, and with not keeping to the left of double dividing lines on the road.